Bundled wire



S. C. CARY.

BUNDLED WIRE.

APPLICATION FILED APPLE, I922.

Patented July 18, 1922.

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BUNDLED WIRE.

IIA2EAWSO Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1922.

Application filed April 3, 1922. Serial No. 549,122.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SPENCER C. CARY, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York,borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, haveinvented a certain new and useful Bundled Wire, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention pertains to bundled wire, the objects in view being toretain lengths of wire in compact relation during shipment and storage,and to afford protection to the end portions of the lengths composingthe bundle so that said end portions are not bent or injured.

In the art of binding shipping packages of one form or another, it iscustomary to use wire as the binding agent for such packages, but inview of the common practice of putting up wire coils or bundles, itbecomes necessary to straighten such wire prior to using the same as abinder for such packages with a view to efiecting such application ofthe binder with facility and at the required tension.

According to this invention, the wire is straightened, out to the lengthdesired, and assembled to produce a compact bundle. Means are providedfor retaining the cut lengths of wire in the required compact relation,and for encasing the end portions of the wires composing said bundle,said encasing of the wire ends being desirable, more particularly, inconnection with bundles composed of wires the end portions of which arepreformed to adapt said wires for use as binders in conjunction withappropriate means for applying tension to said wire during theoperations of positioning the wires around the packages and of unitingthe end portions'of said wires after tension shall have been appliedthereto.

Said encasing means is embodied, in one practical form, as a metal capfitted to the end portion of a bundle composed of assembled wires, andwith the metal cap is associated two or more of the wires entering intothe composition of the bundle, said two or more wires passing throughthe cap so as to protrude from it, and said protruding ends of the wiresbeing locked in position by appropriate means whereby the cap is lookedupon the end portions of the wire bundle. a

A cap is applied to the respective ends of the bundle for retaining thewires. againstendwise movement so that they remain in the requiredcompact order within said bundle, and said caps protect from injury orbending the end portions of said wires, such protection being desirablemore particularly in bundles the wires of which are preformed forco-operative relation to an appropriate tensioning means. Otherfunctions and advantages of the invention will appear from the followingdescription taken in connection with the drawings, wherein- Figure 1 isa view in elevation of a wire bundle the end portions of which arecapped, said view showing certain of the wires long enough to protrudebeyond said caps.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a capped end portion of the wirebundle, illustrating the means for locking the cap fixedly in position.

Figure 3 is a view partly in section andwith preformed wires composingthe bundle in elevation, illustrating the mode of cutting certain ofsaid wires and of removing the cap while leaving such' cut wires in suchcondition as to be available for use as package binders, therebyavoiding waste and the loss of the cut wires for use as binders.

The bundle A is composed of a desired number of wires B, the individualwires having been straightened and cut to length prior to assemblage tocompose the bundle.

Obviously, the wires are uniform as to diameter and length, and in someinstances, it is preferred to use preformed wire, as in Figure 3, thepieces or lengths B of which are straightened, cut to length, andshouldered as at b by flattening the wire as at 6' adjacent an endportion thereof.

C is a cap fitted upon the end portion of the bundle, it being preferredto employ a cap at each end of the bundle. The cap may be composed ofany material suitable for the purpose, and it may be of any appropriateform or construction. As shown, the cap comprises a shell 0 and a head0, the latter being apertured at 05, said cap may be desirably formed ina single piece of drawn seamless metal by blanking the metal and drawingit in a manner well known to the art to produce a cup shaped metal partadapted to be slipped easily upon the pre-v formed end portions 6 of thewires composing the bundle. The metal cap, or each ca is desirablylocked in position upon the en s of the bundled wire, and according tothis invention such locking of the cap is effected by utilizing certaincomponentsof the bundle, e. g., two or more of the wires B.

The bundle is composed almost wholly of wires cut to a determinedlength, but two or more of such wires, indicated at B, are somewhatlonger than the remainder of the wires assembled in the bundle, suchlonger wires B having their end portions e projecting beyond thepreformed portions 6 thereof. Said longer ends 6 of wires B pass throu hthe apertures d providedin the head of cap C, .so as to protrude outsideof said cap, and said protruding wire ends are doubled as at f aroundthe edge of the cap, the doubled part of the longer w1re ends lyingparallel to the shell of said cap, exteriorl thereto, see F1 ures 2 and3.

A retainer D is positioned into contact with the shell of the cap, andsaid reta ner co-operates with the doubled end portlons e of the longerwires B for holding the cap in position upon the bundle end. Sa1dretainer is shown as a ring composed of w re positioned around thebundle and with its ends tied by twisting said ends together at d. Theretainer contacts with the edge of the cap, and said retainer and thelonger wires B are disposed in co-operative relation to each other andto the cap by looping the longer wires B as at g around the retainer,see Figure 3.

As stated, the wire is prepared at a wire mill by coiling the same, andit is shipped in such coiled condition. In preparing the wire prior tothe formation of the bundle, it is necessary to straighten such wire,and to cut it according to the length desired for use as binders to beapplied to a shipping package, and, in some cases, such wire isperformed during the straightening and cutting operations, orsubsequently thereto, by flattening such wire adjacent one or both endportions, with a View to producing a shoulder or shoulders adapted toserve as abutments and to coact with the other abutments formingelements of a tensioning means, the latter constituting certain oper=ative parts of an applying implement or machine whereby the wires areutilized as binders on shipping packages. A desired number of thestraightened, cut and preformed wires B are assembled into-parallelcompact relation to produce the bundle, and

in addition thereto a desired number (two or more) of the longer wires Bare assembled, usually on the outside of the bundle. A cap C is nowslipped upon the bundle, usually one at each end, the end portions 0 ofsaid longer wires B passing through the perforat ns d in the cap, thus potruding asagna beyond the capped end of the bundle. The cap isadjusted, into compact relation to the bundle, the wires B of which arein abutlel relation to the cap, exteriorly thereto,

The retainer D is now fitted tightly around the bundle wireand intocontact with the cap, whereupon the ends 6 of the longer wires B arelooped or bent around the retainer, thus completing the assemblage ofthe parts for retaining and protecting the bundle ends. If desired, abinder of cord or wire may be threaded through or has tened aroundd thewire bundle intermediate the ends thereof or the caps C.

My invention affords means for holding the individual wires againstlongitudinal displacement with respect to the bundle, as well asretaining the wires in compact order, and for protecting the Wire endsfrom bending during bundling or shipment, or becoming otherwise injured.The cap encases the end portions of the wires, and the preformedportions thereof when such preformed wires are assembled to produce thebundle, and this cap is in abutting relation to the ends of the wires,and said cap is locked in position upon the end of the bundle. No wasteor loss of wire is occasioned by utilizing certain of the wires enteringinto the composition of the bundle-as the means for locking the cap uponthe end of said bundle, for the reason that such longer wires B areadapted to be served, as indicated at h in Figure 3, in order to free orrelease the cap C from the restraint of the longer wires B, suchportions of the longer wires When out at It being removable with the capC and the retainer D from the end of bundle, leaving the remainder ofthe wires B as components of said bundle, and such wires B, with thelonger ends e cut off, being available for use as package binders withthe same facility as other wires B, even though said longer wires B arepreformed as described for use in connection with an applying implementor machine.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

' 1. A commercial package embodying a multiplicity of elements inlengths, means against which the ends of the elements engage, certain ofsaid elements extended beyond said means and secured intermediate theends of the elements to retain said means fixedly relatively to the endsof the elements.

2. A commercial package embodying a multiplicity of wires in lengths,means against which the ends of the wires engage certain of said wiresbeing extended through id means and secured in ermemea re diate the endsof the wires to retain said means fixedly relatively to the ends of thewlres.

3. A commercial package embodying a multiplicity of Wires in lengths,and endencasing means, certain of said wires serving as retaining meansand cooperable with the end-encasing means to prevent endwise movementof the remainder-of the wires.

4. Bundled Wire comprising a multiplicity of wires in lengths with someof said wires greater in length than others, means embracing the end ofsaid Wires and preventing relative endwise movement thereof, the wiresof greater length being extended through the end-embracingmeans andsecured to retain the wires of the bundle and the end-embracing means incompact relatively immovable relation.

5. A commercial package embodying a multiplicity of wires in lengths,means for encasin the ends of said wires, certain of said wires beinglooped into engagement with the end-encasing means, and a separateretainer for-said looped wires.

6. A commercial bundle composed of a multiplicity of package-bindingelements all of which are usable as such, and means encasing the endsofthe elements forming said bundle and fixedly retained thereon bycertain of said elements to prevent endwise movement of said elementsrelatively to each other. i

7. A commercial bundle composed of a multiplicity of package-bindingwires all ofwhich are usable as such, substantially all I the wirescomposing said bundle being unirelatively to each other. 1

form as to length, and means encasing the ends of said wires forming thebundle and in abutting contact with the individual wires thereof, saidend-encasing means fixedly retained by certain of said elements on theend portion of the,bundle to prevent endwise movement of the individualwires 8. A commercial, package formed of bundled wire composed ofpreformed straightened pieces uniform as to lengthforming an enlargementnear the; end, a cap encasing the preformed potrions of-said individualpieces, and-means for fixedly retaining the cap in contacting relationto said pieces composing the bundle.

-9. Bundled wire composed of straightened pieces substantially uniformas to length some of the wires associated with saiduniform pieces being.of greater length, and

a cap in abutting relation to the pieces uniform as to length, saidlonger wires protruding through said cap and occupying a fixed relationthereto. 10. Bundled. wire com osed of individual pieces substantiallyuni orm as to length belng the longer ends of certain wires protrudingthrough said cap, andmeans co-operating with said protruding wire endsfor locking the cap on the bundle end.

12. Bundled wire composed of individual pieces substantially uniform asto length, said bundle including other wire pieces as component partsthereof, the length of which exceeds said individual pieces, a capencasing the end portion of the wire bundle,

with the longer ends of certain wires protruding through said cap, andin locked relation thereto, said longer wires being adapted'to be cutexteriorly to the cap and said out ends with the cap being removablefrom the bundle to-leave the remainder of the severed wires intact as acomponent of said bundle.

13. Bundled wire-composed of individual pieces substantially uniform asto length, said bundle including other wirev pieces as component partsthereof, the length of which exceeds said individual pieces, a capfitted to the end of said bundle with the ends of the longer wiresprotruding through the cap, said longerends being doubled relatively tothe cap, and a retainer co-operating with the protruding ends of thelonger wires.

14:- Bnndled wire composed of individual pieces ,substantiall uniform asto length, said bundle including other wire-pieces as component artsthereof, the length of which exceeds said individual pieces, and a capencasingthe bundle end and retained inabutting contact with the wires bya locking engagement with the longer wires, said longer wiresbeingadapted to be severed exteriorly to the cap and said cap with thesevered wire ends being removable from the bundle end; 15. A commercialpackage formed of bundled wire the end of which package isencased by acap, and a retainer encircling the package and cooperating with certainof the wires forming. a component part of the bundle whereby the ca isretained fixedly in position upon the en portion of the packlittestimony whereof I have hereto signed my name this 30th day of March,1922.

SPENCER C. GARY.

